Population: 10,350,194 (July 2001 est.)

Languages: Byelorussian, Russian, other

Background: After seven decades as a constituent republic of the USSR, Belarus attained its independence in 1991. It has retained closer political and economic ties to Russia than any of the other former Soviet republics. Belarus and Russia signed a treaty on a...

Currency: (BYR, No information)

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